Online Safety

We address e-safety issues through our PSHE and Computing – see curriculum on this website for more details. However, we would like to give you more information about how to monitor your children’s safety online.

Reminder

It is important to remember that the age restrictions for Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat is 13 years old.

https://www.thinkuknow.co.uk/parents/ - This website is an excellent resource produced by CEOP, the Child Exploitation and Online Protection centre. It has a search engine so you can search for articles that directly relate to specific issues and is kept very up to date to reflect dangers that are being spotted as new online.
https://www.internetmatters.org/resources/esafety-leaflets-resources/ - This website in general contains lots of guidance on e-safety, but this particular page contains many leaflets which contain important information across a wide variety of issues. Some of these pertain to older children, but many parents at this school have children that are older, so you may also find these a useful resource. We will be including the leaflets on our website.
https://www.nspcc.org.uk/keeping-children-safe/online-safety/ - The NSPCC have a lot of information for parents on a variety of ways to keep their children safe. This particular part of the site specifically addresses online safety.
https://www.youngminds.org.uk/parent/parents-a-z-mental-healthguide/social-media/ – This website is a guide for parents to help them to talk to their children about social media. It has links to other resources that may be helpful to you.